[BRLTTY] Absolute basics

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Andy Jack on 2010/10/26 at 22:14 +0100]

>I downloaded and built brltty 4.2 with --with-braille-driver=bn and 
>--with-braille-device=ttyUSB0 

It's probably best to not specify any of these configure options as the default 
is to build all drivers. Then specify what you actually want for system 
defaults within /etc/brltty.conf.

   braille-driver bn
   braille-device serial:ttyUSB0

This way, you can change your specifications without having to rebuild brltty.

>(make install didn't seem to update the brltty in /sbin) 

That'd be because the default is to install brltty in /bin (not /sbin). I guess 
Ubuntu overrides this default.

>and run it with sudo ./brltty in the Programs directory, 

Note that if you don't specify --with-braille-driver= when configuring (which 
builds the specified drivers into the brltty executable) then running brltty 
this way may not work because the correct versions of the drivers may not have 
been installed yet. The best way to run brltty from within the build tree is to 
use the run-brltty script in the top-level build directory.

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